GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

To be eligible in Canada patients must have a “ grievous and irremediable ” condition, including disability ; they do not have to have a terminal illness with a prognosis of less than 6 months. A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

So during the dissertation, that was a method for my PhD research and that’s related to… I was learning about African American elders experiences of psych-social-spiritual healing and serious illness. Tell me about your illness. So it’s a very scary culture for people who are not in healthcare.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal. Lauren: Yeah. Lauren: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, we spend the first half talking about a RCT simulation study of clinician verbal and non-verbal communication with a seriously ill patient with cancer. As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) So that’s the interpersonal between the provider and the patient. I love this song.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 12:36 And most of our listeners are like clinician, practicing clinicians caring for older adults, people with serious illness. So at our cancer center, we have physicians, advanced practice providers. So, for example, the intervention visits had to be delivered by a physician or advanced practice provider.

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GeriPal

MARCH 16, 2023

So this week we’re going to be talking about writing for the lay public, and next week we’ll be publishing a podcast on writing for healthcare providers. Louise: Well again, if you take that approach, you also get rid of ableism and ageism against children and prejudice against people who are ill. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

What about ambivalence on the part of the provider? He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Eric: So not from the patient perspective or family, but from the provider perspective? How should we think about that? Josh, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary As Betty Ferrell says on our podcast today, nurses play an essential role in care of people with serious illness. Some numbers to back it up: ELNEC has trained more than 48,000 providers in a train the trainer model Over 1.5 Who spends the most time with the patient in the infusion center? Doing home care?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Ill end this intro with a quote from Deb Grady in an editors commentary to our thought piece in JAMA Internal Medicine about this topic: Voice technology that creates a searchable database of patients every encounter with a health care professional? Using data from wearable devices, internet searches, and purchasing history?

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